Amusement device



oct. 13,1925. 1,556,597

` R. GIBERT AMUSEMENT ,DEVI CE Filed April 1o, 1922 2 sheets-sheet 1 Oct. 13, 1925- R. GIBERT AMUSEMENT DEVICE Filed April 10, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented oct. 13, 1925.

" vmehr. aIBEEr,l '0E PAEIS, Farmen f f AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

To all whom t may'. concern.'

Be it known that I, REN GIBERT, a-citizen ofthe French Republic, residing at,77 Rue de Turbigo, Paris, France, .have'invented new and useful Improvements in Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means forgiving y seats,. cradles,` or passenger carriers anoscillati-ng or rocking movement, said seats or -cradles being carried byv supports attached to a floor or platform ofan amusement device. n f When the device is used in connectio with a plat-form of a merry-go-round, a somewhat different drive is employed from thatusedwhen my invention is applied to a car or platform with wheels or other means for running on tracks. In several applications-of my invention, the iioor or platform is provided with upwardly projecting seat supports wit-h bearings for trunnionsthat project from the ends of the seats, one of the said trunnions being extended and provided on the extended end with a gear and in line with this gear there is a gear mounted between hangers attached to the floor. The gears are connected so that when an oscillating movement is given to the lower gear, it will be transmitted to the seat, a connecting means for the driven gear passing through the floor of the platform.

On the other hand, the same mechanism may be employed to actuate cradles arranged in independent groups or united together, upon a fixed rectangular floor, each group permitting either to be acted upon either separately or in combination with the other groups.

In the accompanying drawings given as examplez- Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of the system controlling the oscillation.

Fig. 2 is a view in profile of the same system showing the cradle.

Fig. 3 is a side view of an arrangement designed to actuate one cradle or a group of several cradles arranged upon a fixed floor. 7

Fig. 4 shows a modification of the driving means for cradles arranged upon theiioor of a C811'.

f VApplicationinea Ap'm 1o, 1922. jserial Nc.y 551,305 l 3 The4 completedevice -Ais attached-asrepf v resented in .Figll to the floor 5 and.r tothe I y.frame V1 which. on vthe upper/part supports fa 55 fixed rack 2 in the form-of .'afring: A toothed wheel 13 gears with'thisrackf2`, the said:` wheel -bein g ixe'd under .the floor 5 by a; bearing 4,fan'd furnished'with. an ecce'n f tric stud lto which aforked hinged rod-17, 60.

tached'to the segment gear-1 8 which? is'supported-underthe iioorl' :in a'bfearing 9; The 'segment 8 isunitedwith the segment 10 abovethe floor by thevspr'ocket'chains 11 65 and connecting'rods '12. Q :,ffff Y The laxis 13 of thesegment gear- 10 is prolonged, as shown in Fig. 2, byacranked .shaft16,fthe two ends-o'fwhich. are'carried in .two ball bearings formed inthe supports 15 iixedito the ioorr; Vi

The cradle 17 is fixed on th-cranked shaft 16.

The operation is as follows The floor 5 being set in a rotatory motion 75 by the usual methods,thetoothed wheel 3 which is engaged with the rack2, is entrained by this rotation and turns around the rack. The eccentric stud 6l fixed on the wheel 3 then sets the hinged forked rod 7 80 in motion, which acting as connecting rod, imparts an alternating rotary motion to theV segment gear 8, limited by the throw of the rod. This motion transmitted tothe higher segment gear 10 by the sprocket 85 chains 11 and connecting rods 12 is carried in the fork of the hinged rod 7 The segment gear 10 then oscillates in both directions, as indicated by the arrows, around its axis 13, giving the cranked shaft 16, upon which the cradle is fixed, a regular rolling motion.

The axis 13 may be of any linear form, in its passage through the segment gear 10, y which will enable it to be entrained by the latter.

Finally, as shown in Fig. 3, the apparatus ldescribed may be adapted in a manner to actuate cradles arranged upon a fixed rectangular or anyv other suitablyshaped floor.

In such case, the segment gear 8 supported by the bearing 9 is lunited by means of sprocket chains 11 and connecting rods 12 to a second segment gear 10 arrangedabove the fixed floor 5 carrying the cradle and keyed to an aXle 13, this segment gear being supported by a. bearing 15. The rod 7 uniting the lower segment 9 lto the controlling mechanism is hinged lat its OPPosite end upon a stud 18 carriedby a crank 19 keyed to the upper end of a vertical shaft 20. The latter is arranged with its lower end upon a ball bearing 21 and is kept in position by means of a support 2.2Vreposing upon the ground. The device is completed by a driving shaft 23 provided withia Worm gear 24 meshing with another worm gear 25 keyed upon the vertical vshaft 20, motion `bein transmitted by -sai'delements fromthe driving shaft 23 .to the shaft 2O and hence to the cranklfdisc 1,9.

The motion vof the driving `shaft r23 may be equally V4,transmitted to the vertical shaft by means of aconical wheel26 `(Fig. let) keyed to the driving shaft and engaging with another conical gear 27 yfixed lto the vertical shaft '20.

It Vwill be easily understood from .what hasb'een said above ,that the device shown in Figs. 3 4 permitsito arrange the cradles in rows upon the iXedfioor, for example, in groupsiof two cradles. All groups may be controlled simultaneously from the driving shaft .23p'rovided upon its whole length `with as many helicoidal gears 2a as there are vertical shafts 20-carryinglthe helicoidal -the. seats, agear carried by one of the trunnions, hangers attached to and depending vfromthe platform, an oscillatory gear maintained by the hangers, means for connecting said gearwith agear on one of the trunions, said means comprising sprocket chains for the gears, and rods vwhich are attached to vthe ends of the sprocket chains.

2. lIn an amusement device, a` platform -havingseat supports which project upward from -said platform, hangers depending from vthe under side of the platform, .seats maintained in oscillatory engagement with ,the seat supports, means projecting beyond one of the seat supports to carry and aline a gear with a gear maintained between the depending hangers, connecting means for the gears comprising chains and rods which connect the chains and pass through apertures 1n the platform, land means for 1m- ,parting Aan oscillating motion to the gears during theJ movement of the platform.

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

R. GIBER'I. 

